Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:59:57 -0500
From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>,
	Marcos Pegoraro <marcos@f10.com.br>,
	Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>,
	jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>,
	Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>,
	Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>,
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Detailed release notes
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 02:23:15PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 02:21:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 11:04:50AM -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
>> >> Maybe plus-minus (±), to represent the diff?
>> 
>> > Uh, that might make sense to people who vie diffs often, but not the
>> > average reader of the document.
>> 
>> Well, the § symbol hasn't got that much mnemonic value either.
>> 
>> However ... wasn't one of the arguments for § that there's some
>> other project(s) already using it for this purpose?  If so, I think
>> we'd be better off joining the crowd.
> 
> I don't remember anyone else using it, but its purpose to point to a
> place with more detail makes logical sense.

Another option could be delta (Δ or δ).  That's not LATIN-1, but I'd
imagine it's relatively well supported at this point.

-- 
nathan